Over at his excellent Substack newsletter, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich asks the question thatās probably on the minds of many: āWhy are…
Milei’s victory is an international marker, of sorts, for Americaās billionaires and largest corporations, who share his desire to end liberal democracy…
āThirty years ago,ā Damon Linker told The Guardian, āif I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right…
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse this week filed an ethics complaint about corruption in the Supreme Court. Weirdly, he had to file it with Chief Justice…
Although itās generally only mentioned in passing in the mainstream media, there are two particularly chilling passages in Jack Smithās indictment of…
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was pulling no punches in calling out her six Republican colleagues on the Supreme Court in the…
Earlier this week, The New York Timespublished a partial exposĆ© of former President Donald Trumpās plans for his second administration. It involved basically turning…
The government of the NetherlandsĀ fellĀ last week. The issue that tipped it over the edge was immigration driven by climate change. If Putin…
Six Republicans on the Supreme Court just killed President Bidenās student loan debt forgiveness program. Republicans, predictably, are giddy, celebrating another Supreme…
“Successionā is over, but spoiled, entitled billionaire man-children are still very much with us, running social media companies, owning newspapers and television…
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